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Freak surgery complication, apparently. " Saide’s sister said in a Facebook post that her brother had undergone surgery to remove a bone that had been growing on his spinal cord. The surgery was successful and Saide returned home with the use of a walking stick. On February 26, Saide went to the ER due to complications from a DVT diagnosis related to his surgery. Saide’s sister said that his heart stopped and he was unable to be resuscitated. A private cremation for Saide will be held in New York City."

According to Joey's post above, you are the Best Loser right now if teams fail to get sent in, so you might yet get to Round 2 by Default.

Might be loading probs with your browser, he's def there...

I was going to say "yeah well tbh I thought he'd see 100 easily!" but then I checked the DDP site and he's on 4 teams, so once again I am confused.

Entrance music?

For comparison, here he is in July 2019.

My team is in. Not confident though, think Biblio could do well next month.

Another angle Look at the big gap between trouser leg and leg, and those fingers. These posts will get multiple replies from Sean before too long...

Some of us do try to heavily hint by saying things like "am told off the radar the Laird of Balgonie is in a bad way" or "A very well known historian is sadly quite ill these days and might be looking for some Divine rest soon (but I hope not)" or the like, for example. Phantom and OoO are quite good at this sort of thing.

Is it just me, or has the formerly ubiquitous John Bird not been on TV in years? I mean, fair enough, he's 84 this year, and John Fortune died a number of years ago, but he always felt like the type of performer who'd go on in TV roles/panel show type things for life unless health got in the way, so just saying...

One for the "didn't they die decades ago?" list: Fanny Rodwell, widow of Herge, and owner of his estate (ie Tintin). Now 86.

To misquote Toast badly, if the Beeb picked Capaldi they'd be in danger of actually winning...

I don't think we want to win, but overall people quite liked that year we finished 3rd and got 180 points or what not. Weirdly, that was the last year we took it even vaguely seriously. I think its a bit like votes for Head Boy at school - folk don't want to win but don't want to be Johnny No Mates at the bottom of the list either?

I'll be honest on two points: 1. That sounds like the kind of rubbish Eurovision fans vote for in large numbers tbh. 2. The voting at Eurovision is 99% politics so nobody would vote for us post-Brexit if we had got Take That or fucking Coldplay to sing.

The poster child for those things is Ernest Saunders, who got out of a five year fraud prison sentence due to coming down with advanced Alzheimer's. The second he got released, he mysteriously became the only person in history to recover from Alzheimer's and went right back to work. He's still alive, btw.

Ah yes, I had that last week. Apparently there's a strand at the moment that mimics many symptoms of coronavirus which presumably exists just to scare the shit out of the paranoid. Although at one point when I was coughing and choking my head off I thought "Hey, if I go into town right now I could get the entire west coast of Scotland quarantined through panic!"

In embarrassing scenes, the next DL hit isn't actually until 5th October 2031, by which point most of the forum have died of coronavirus...

Imbedding into my brain from childhood: Up up, down down, left, right, left, right, die...

With Medwin, Cussler, Johnson, Baby Peggy, Bunge, 2 dictators, 1 notorious serial killer, a Twilight Zone actor and Greta's acting grandad in the last 48 hours, I'm beginning to suspect this thread was actually a threat or warning, not a prediction... And yet Tobin lives...

Nexhmije Hoxha dead.

Same! They were (and are) great ripping yarns. Never actually read or seen Raise The Titanic though.

I've only got like 5 picks with 3 days left, guys... Can you name some of DI's picks instead?

Great name.

In case people think "Oh Wiki edits", here's a CBS obit. The fucker is dead. https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/02/25/last-remaining-tool-box-killer-roy-norris-dies-at-72/ For search engine: Roy Norris, serial killer.

Reminds me of my gran at a funeral once. "Sorry to hear (X) slipped away" said an old dear. "Well you better go catch him then!" said my Gran quick as a flash. And it was her sister's funeral!